Rallycross - Hyvinkää, Finland, 2011 Finals - Mazda RX-7, close finish - Super Car class.

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Uploaded by FrozenBlaze on Dec 12, 2011

First race in it's class, the Mazda RX-7 FD3S wins just barely by the lenght of it's nose!
The car and it's driver did well all the way to the semi-finals, before the unavoidable happened: The RX-7's wankel engine blew and caught on fire. The driver had to retire, unable to continue.

Sad, but with wankels you always know that there's a risk of either blowing the engine or suffering a sudden malfunction. Nonetheless, this Rotary Rocket was my favourite in it's class in the Finals of Finland Rallycross Championships and it did very well 'till the bitter end! ROTARY POWER!

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@StavGTR

I honestly have no idea.

The participant list didn't have specifications about the vehicles or about how they were built, only a list of the drivers and the vehicles they were using.

Rotary can be recognized pretty much only during low rev's, as it has a unique (and bad) sound below 2000-3000rpm.

As the body of the car was a FD3S, I just assumed it was a rotary with a turbo and a quite unique BOV sound. I didn't check out the pits, teams nor the cars at all, just the races.

FrozenBlaze 1 month ago
Rotary? This thing has an SR20 in it and Skyline GT-R based 4wd?

StavGTR 1 month ago
@videowilliams

Yeah.

The driver, Arola Harri did a great job driving it.

It's sad that the engine blew up in the semifinals, but hey... Wankel's a wankel. It tends to happen with rotaries.

I still can't get over with that turbo whistle... It's just bizarre!

FrozenBlaze 2 months ago
That's the gutsiest rotary engine I ever heard! And a gutsy supporter behind the camera too.

videowilliams 2 months ago

Rallycross - Hyvinkää, Finland, 2011 Finals - Mazda RX-7, close finish - Super Car class.

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